So my job has this Biggest Loser Challenge they are doing. I wanted to sign up, but the supervisor in charge intimidated me out of entering. I said, "Is the winner based on how much percentage of weight that was lost, or the actual number of pounds?" She replied, "The actual number."
I passed her desk on the way home and she said, "Why'd you ask that question, Miss Lady?" I replied, "It's not fair!" She paused and looked at me dead in my eyes, "What's not fair? That you can walk into Charlotte Russe, or Forever 21, or Agaci and buy whatever you want?"
That sure as shit shut me the fuck up. I felt bad. But that didn't stop me from creating my OWN challenge with my friends. For every weekly weigh in, if I stay the same, I pay them a dollar. If I gain, I pay them $2.00 per pound gained.
So the challenge weigh-ins were sent to the floor, but people used aliases instead of their real names. I found out one of the participants weight and I knew her. She was TWENTY pounds more than me. I THOUGHT SHE WAS SMALLER THAN ME. When I pointed this out to friends, they yelled at me, saying, "DUH! YOU ARE ITTY BITTY! You're sick. Seriously, you are sick."
Y'all, I was trippin' so hard on this, I can't explain it to you. I didn't get it. I didn't understand at ALL how, if I was smaller than her, HOW THE FUCK did I not see it? I saw myself as bigger than her, but in reality . . . I'm not. I was so confused and scared and nervous and . . . I just didn't get it.
Weird-ass shit.